GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.4% industry: 26.2% services: 72.5% (2003 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
15.2% of GDP (2003)
Population below poverty line:
12% (2003 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.8% highest 10%: 30.5% (1997)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
45 (1997)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.3% (2003)
Labor force:
147.4 million (includes unemployed) (2003)
Labor force - by occupation: managerial, professional, and technical 34.9%, sales and office 25.5%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 22.7%, other services 16.3%, farming, forestry, and fishing 0.7% note: figures exclude the unemployed (2004)
Unemployment rate:
6% (2003)
Budget:
revenues: $1.782 trillion
expenditures: $2.156 trillion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003)